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1. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER HD HOW TO CHANGE GRAPHIC UPGRADE#
2. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER HD HOW TO CHANGE GRAPHIC SERIES#

All of the favorites from the first two games return for this remaster, but look like they do now, not 20 years ago. This mix of the old school and the new extends to the roster of skaters as well. With the addition of tons of new challenges and a leveling system, this is easily on par with any modern release. There are even new goals to complete on the original Tony Hawk Pro Skater levels that fit in pretty well. And the Mall has now obviously been abandoned for quite some time, not unlike most malls nowadays. The video screens in the School hint at a closing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Drones buzz around Downhill Jam and the Bullring. If you look closely, there have been a few modern twists added to many of the games’ classic locales, though. This is the Warehouse as you always imagined but that the PS1 just wasn’t capable of rendering in 1999. Rather than fix what isn’t broken, this new coat of paint brings out what we always knew was there. The geometry of each level is fundamentally unchanged from the original games, though the new graphics look phenomenal. Of course, it helps that Vicarious Visions smartly included some of the tricks from later games that make it easier to score massive combos, like the revert, spine transfer, and wall plant. After just a few runs, I was racking up six-figure combos and crushing sick score challenges. What immediately struck me when I started up Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is just how well the fundamentals hold up and how quickly everything came back to me.

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER HD HOW TO CHANGE GRAPHIC SERIES#

While later games in the series had their issues, the first couple Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games were a phenomenon back in the day. Even for those of us who have never ridden a skateboard, the addictive, combo-based gameplay and the chase for ever higher scores became something of an obsession. Something about the near-perfect placement of ramps and rails in each level, and the ability to combine flips, grabs, and grinds created a rare, iconic style of gameplay on par with the most legendary titles in gaming, like Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. The Tony Hawk games were defining titles of the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 era. This is the new gold standard in remasters, a game that expertly threads the needle between keeping what everyone loved about the original titles and changing just enough to make it feel fresh and relevant. But if you change too many of the things, like with this year’s Final Fantasy VII Remake, you risk significant backlash from fans of the original.īut like a perfect grind on a long rail, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 has found just the right balance.

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER HD HOW TO CHANGE GRAPHIC UPGRADE#

If you just upgrade the graphics and increase the resolution like with the upcoming Super Mario 3D All Stars, people are going to say you didn’t do enough. Remastering old games has to be one of the toughest jobs in the industry.